Number-crunching - sales figures
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julesjonesNumber-crunching updated to include 2011. The numbers here are the total sales from when the book first went on sale to the end of the calendar year cited. Which means you can also get the sales per year figures for 2009 onwards with a bit of subtracting, if you're so inclined.
This does not include sales over the Christmas period, as the publisher account period runs to the third week of the month. Next month is when I start to get an idea if the big push on selling ereaders this Christmas will show up in my sales figures.
The pattern I was seeing last year continues -- sales direct from the publisher's website are a trickle (which is not surprising as all of these books have been out for at least three years, with my last release in August 2008). The bulk of the sales are coming from third party resellers, and the bulk of those are coming from Amazon. Second place now seems to go to ARe overall, although there's also a showing from Fictionwise and Barnes & Noble. Not much from Sony, although even there there's a handful of sales.
I made just over $2k in royalties, which given that I have no exposure from new releases for over three years, and have been doing no promotion, isn't too bad. It's certainly an incentive to keep working on the new book. :-)
And this shows very clearly why there will be no third Spindrift book, even though I know what the plot would be. The first Spindrift book is available on third party sites but has still sold fewer copies than two titles which are only available direct from Loose Id. If I were still writing full time and able to put out 2 or 3 books a year without risking quality, I might gamble on it, but I'm writing around a day job as and when my health is up to it. Not happening. I have more books I want to write than time to write them in, and sales are something I take into account when picking which one of them to put at the head of the queue.
This does not include sales over the Christmas period, as the publisher account period runs to the third week of the month. Next month is when I start to get an idea if the big push on selling ereaders this Christmas will show up in my sales figures.
| from 1st day on sale until end of | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
| Black Leather Rose | 774 | 922 | 995 | 1024 |
| Buildup 1: Mindscan | 1304 | 1466 | 1554 | 1629 |
| Buildup 2: Pulling Strings | 711 | 857 | 918 | 967 |
| Dolphin Dreams | 1739 | 2151 | 2352 | 2725 |
| Lord and Master | 1510 | 1839 | 2057 | 2390 |
| L&M 2: Taking Work Home | 648 | 1020 | 1201 | 1408 |
| Promises To Keep | 1002 | 1119 | 1200 | 1242 |
| Spindrift | 659 | 801 | 858 | 924 |
| Spindrift 2: Ship to Shore | 419 | 480 | 510 | 516 |
The pattern I was seeing last year continues -- sales direct from the publisher's website are a trickle (which is not surprising as all of these books have been out for at least three years, with my last release in August 2008). The bulk of the sales are coming from third party resellers, and the bulk of those are coming from Amazon. Second place now seems to go to ARe overall, although there's also a showing from Fictionwise and Barnes & Noble. Not much from Sony, although even there there's a handful of sales.
I made just over $2k in royalties, which given that I have no exposure from new releases for over three years, and have been doing no promotion, isn't too bad. It's certainly an incentive to keep working on the new book. :-)
And this shows very clearly why there will be no third Spindrift book, even though I know what the plot would be. The first Spindrift book is available on third party sites but has still sold fewer copies than two titles which are only available direct from Loose Id. If I were still writing full time and able to put out 2 or 3 books a year without risking quality, I might gamble on it, but I'm writing around a day job as and when my health is up to it. Not happening. I have more books I want to write than time to write them in, and sales are something I take into account when picking which one of them to put at the head of the queue.